Hyderabad

Catalogue Reference:(RGS) S0001896

A view looking down a broad thoroughfare in central Hyderabad, Andhra Pradesh, in South India, from a photograph taken in the first half of the 20th century. The square building with four minarets or slender towers in the left background of the picture is called the Charminar, and was built in 1591 by Muhammad Quli Qutb Shah, the founder of Hyderabad, to commemorate the end of an outbreak of plague. The minarets rise to a height of 20 metres above the roof which contains a mosque in one section.